gatownsend

Well, something managed to turn my Axim on last night and drain the battery, so I am now faced with an unwanted hard reset. I sync to my home and my work PC, and when I've done this before I've always had problems with duplicates. In the past, I'll sync with the first PC and everything gets copied over to the Axim. The problem comes when I sync to the second PC. It will sync, and either one of two things will happen - 1. I will get duplicates of everything, or 2. the Ax will be updated with everything from the second PC. Both of these results come from selecting "combine data", but I have yet to figure out why sometimes it duplicates and sometimes it doesn't. The problems with outcome #1 are obvious. With outcome #2 what happens is that when I go back to PC #1 everything syncs again because it thinks it is all changed again, and I enter a vicious circle of every single record being synced every time I switch to the other PC.

I checked the tutorials and did some searching of the forums, but didn't see anything. There has got to be a way to avoid either of these outcomes, but my searches didn't give me much hope.

The old name of the Axim was PocketPC (underscore removed from the standard name). I was going to try switching it back to that name once the battery is charged, and then go into AS and say "Desktop overwrites handheld" for the first sync. Then when I get home tonight I was going to pick "Handheld overwrites desktop". Theoretically, I believe this will work.

Any suggestions from more seasoned folks would be appreciated.

Thanks and regards,

Gary